Aquincola
| Aquincola | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Sphaerotilaceae |
| Genus: | Aquincola Lechner et al. 2007[1] |
| Type species | |
| Aquincola tertiaricarbonis Lechner et al. 2007 | |
| Species[1] | |
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Aquincola is a genus of aerobic, Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Sphaerotilaceae.[1][2] The type species is Aquincola tertiaricarbonis.[1] The generic name combines the Latin words aqua, meaning water, and incola, meaning an inhabitant.[1]
Characteristics and ecology
Strains of A. tertiaricarbonis were originally isolated from methyl tert-butyl ether-contaminated groundwater and a wastewater-treatment plant. They are strictly aerobic, possess polar flagella and pili, and can accumulate polyhydroxybutyrate.[2] Strain L108 can degrade the fuel oxygenates methyl tert-butyl ether, ethyl tert-butyl ether, and tert-amyl methyl ether, as well as several of their metabolic intermediates.[3]
Aquincola amnicola was originally isolated from a freshwater river. Its cells are short rods, motile by a single polar flagellum, surrounded by a thick capsule, and capable of accumulating polyhydroxybutyrate.[4] Aquincola agrisoli was originally isolated from the rhizospheric soil of eggplant. It is an aerobic, flagellated bacterium with light-pink colonies.[5]
Taxonomy
The List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature recognizes three species with validly published and correct names in the genus: A. agrisoli, A. amnicola, and A. tertiaricarbonis.[1]
The species formerly known as Aquincola rivuli was transferred to the genus Rubrivivax as Rubrivivax rivuli following a genome-based taxonomic revision of Sphaerotilaceae.[6][1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Genus: Aquincola". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
- 1 2 Lechner, U.; Brodkorb, D.; Geyer, R.; Hause, G.; Hartig, C.; Auling, G.; Fayolle-Guichard, F.; Piveteau, P.; Muller, R. H.; Rohwerder, T. (2007). "Aquincola tertiaricarbonis gen. nov., sp. nov., a tertiary butyl moiety-degrading bacterium". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (6): 1295–1303. Bibcode:2007IJSEM..57.1295L. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64663-0. PMID 17551046.
- ↑ Müller, Roland H.; Rohwerder, Thore; Harms, Hauke (2008). "Degradation of fuel oxygenates and their main intermediates by Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L108". Microbiology. 154 (Pt 5): 1414–1421. doi:10.1099/mic.0.2007/014159-0. PMID 18451050.
- ↑ Chen, Wen-Ming; Chen, Yi-Ling; Li, Yi-Shu; Sheu, Shih-Yi (2018). "Aquincola amnicola sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater river". Archives of Microbiology. 200 (5): 811–817. Bibcode:2018ArMic.200..811C. doi:10.1007/s00203-018-1492-4. PMID 29442129.
- ↑ Huq, Md Amdadul; Rahman, Md Shahedur; Rahman, M. Mizanur (2024). "Aquincola agrisoli sp. nov., isolated from rhizospheric soil of eggplant and in silico genome mining for the prediction of biosynthetic gene clusters". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 74 (4) 006355. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.006355. PMC 11092185. PMID 38683662.
- ↑ Liu, Yang; Du, Juan; Pei, Tao; Du, Hanqin; Feng, Guang-Da; Zhu, Honghui (2022). "Genome-based taxonomic classification of the closest-to-Comamonadaceae group supports a new family Sphaerotilaceae fam. nov. and taxonomic revisions". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 45 (6) 126352. Bibcode:2022SyApM..4526352L. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126352. PMID 36063784.